Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-18
"A JOCKEYS FALL.
Thrown sixty Feet From a
HOrse,s Back

/ Y
Switch), at the race track last Sat-
urday was one of the most terrible
that ever happened on a race track,
and may be fairly set down as a
| warning to men who attempt to
trick the public by unfalrness on
| the turf.
The race was between Sadie c.,
q Dayton mare, and bay horse
owned in Mason Valley. Sadie was
young, highly bred mare, owned
by Mr.. Stollard, and no more ex-
quisitely moulded animal ever sped
on a track. She beat the Mason
Valley horse at Reno and Carson
and at Wabuska, but still the cow
boys of Mason Valley, who are
proud of the reputation that they
never desert their friends, backed
the bay horse in the Fridays races
to their last dollar. The heavy
odds, however, offered at the pool
box on the Mason Valley horse ex-
cited the suspicion of the Judges,
and they ordered change of riders.
After the change the hackers of the
bay were as ready with their money
as ever, and it was whispered about
the track that the new rider would
pull the mare rather than incur the
enmity of the hackers of the horse.
The run was a quarter of mile
dash. Two dead heats were run,
when in the third the mares bride
broke and she won easily. The
last heat brought the horse in with
heaving chest and dilated nostrils,
while the mare was as fresh as
ever.
The hackers of the horse were
considerably chagrined over the
result, and another race was ar
ranged for Saturday at Pizen Switch
between the same pair.
Here was where the accident took
place. The track was a half mile,
hedged by a barbed wire fence.
The turn was very sharp, SO sharp
that fast race could not be run
without great danger. In order to
obviate this it was agreed between
the jockeys that they would not go
at high speed until after the sharp
turn was passed.
The bays jockey, however disre-
garded this agreement, and whip
ped his horse from the start, gain
ing several lengths.
The mare was on the outside,
and it is alleged by the spectators
that the mare was run as far as
possible on the outside in order to
lose the race.
AS soon as the animal saw her
rival so far ahead she took the bit,
and when she struck the turn was
running like grey hound. Here
she acquired such momentum that
she could not turn, but shot straight
to the wire fence. Just before
reaching 1t she took a magnificent
leap, but the fence was unusually
high, and her fore feet struck the
top wire. The next moment half
dozen ladies tainted on the stand.
The mare turned complete somer-
sault, and as she was poised for an
instant, head down, a cry of horror
went up. The jockey, Lee McCul
Tough, left the animals back as il
shot out of a catapult, and struck
the ground go feet from the fence.
When the crowd reached him he
was insensible, and the last word
was that he could not live.
The mare after her fall picked
herself up and catching sight of the
track, wheeled and made for it like
an arrow. The crowd attempted to
keep her away from the barbed
wire fence but nothing could stop
her and she struck it in a slanting
direction. at full speed. She fell
on her side and when she rose,
covered with blood from a dozen
gashes, the skin of her chest was
hanging down and Tapping about
her fore legs like q blanket. She